Laws.
The extremity of happiness is the assistance of God, for there can be no such thing as want when God gives his aid.
About the creation of the world.
From the same author, from the first book of the Questions arising in Genesis.
It is impossible that the harmony, and arrangement, and reason, and analogy, and that all the great accord and real happiness which we see existing in the world can have been originated by themselves, for it follows inevitably that these things must have had a creator, and a father, and a regulator and governor, who generated them in the first place, and who now preserves what he has generated.
About the church of God.
From the same author.
God wishing to send down from heaven to the earth an image of his divine virtue, out of his compassion for our race, that it might not be destitute of a more excellent portion, and that he might thus wash off the pollutions which defile our miserable existence, so full of all dishonour, established his church among us.
About seeking God.
From the same author, from the last book of the Questions arising in Exodus.
The one most powerful relaxation of the soul leads to the sacred love of the one living God, teaching mankind to take God as its guide in all their plans, and words, and actions.
From the same author.
The extremity of happiness is to rest unchangeably and immovably on God alone.
About the last day.
The words of Philo, from the second book of the Questions arising in Exodus.
The stars are turned round and revolve in a regular circle, some proceeding on in the same manner through the whole heaven, and others have special eccentric motions of their own.
About the detestation of wickedness felt by God.
The words of Philo, from the second book of the Questions arising in Exodus.
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